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Are Caffeinated Spiders Faster Weavers?

  • Rach3
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Do non-sentient animals breed without experiencing pleasure?

  • Gold Barz
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Medical Are cancer, evolution, and mutation the same process viewed differently?

  • Pythagorean
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Darkfield,brightfield application in one microscope?

  • Grace Anne
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How do cougars raise their young

  • KingNothing
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Do fish break wind?

  • wolram
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Mystery in the Sky: What is the Rainbow-Shaped Cloud?

  • moose
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Heart/cardiovascular problems at 21?

  • leright
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Biological invisibility via distributed rhodopsin sensors and engineered output proteins

  • Chaos' lil bro Order
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All death caused by lack of oxygen to brain

  • PIT2
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Why aren't we immune to spiders

  • DannyC
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Can Giving Up Coffee Improve My Eye Condition?

  • Chi Meson
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Hearing Problems in University: Seeking Solutions

  • Bladibla
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The Artful Disguise of a Decorator Crab

  • Ivan Seeking
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Why don't I care about insults or others' opinions?

  • Gelsamel Epsilon
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Bottom Trawling: Is It Harming the Sea Floor?

  • Mk
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Piece of hair imbed in her cornea

  • Stevedye56
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Ailing 'Dilbert' cartoonist talks again

  • Evo
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Purple tomatoes developed at Oregon State University

  • Ivan Seeking
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Funny Reproduction: Watch these Critters Faint!

  • edward
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Haldane's Dilemma: Resolving Beneficial Mutation Rates

  • heliocentricprose
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Mutations in Humans: Calculating Human Gene Code Change Rate

  • heliocentricprose
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Is Hypnosis Reliable in Retrieving Lost Memories?

  • Ivan Seeking
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Medical Modelling Memory Consolidation using Neural Networks

  • gadgets
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Does fat convert to heat and mass during exercise?

  • mtanti
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Class III Laser Safety - Is There Any Danger?

  • dimensionless
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Can complex systems be reduced to simpler parts without losing function?

  • garytse86
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Liverwort gemma vs. moss spores: What's the difference?

  • future_vet
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All New Cells Every Seven (Nine?) Years?

  • Wally
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Ow, my neck, my neck and my back.

  • mattmns
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Passed medical gases course simulation

  • brewnog
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After a dance class I got a really sore hamstring

  • rhuthwaite
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Medical Bi-Polar Disorder mimics drug use

  • Chaos' lil bro Order
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Medical The name of consciousness-science?

  • rune
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Medical Can memories and thoughts be transferred between people?

  • Evil
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How much different are the DNA of chimps and humans.

  • heliocentricprose
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Common Anesthetics used in the operating room

  • AntiChrist
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What is Coupled Phosphorylation?

  • JamesU
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Why do woodpeckers never get headaches?

  • Ivan Seeking
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Celebrating Fire and Mello's Nobel Prize in Physiology/Medicine

  • neutrino
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Medical Difference between a psychoactive and pyschedelic?

  • Line
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Can Anyone Identify This Fish Fossil?

  • dougd
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Can Scientists Eliminate Flatulence from Beans?

  • brewnog
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Is there artificial adrenaline?

  • Line
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Medical How Can You Effectively Manage Different Types of Migraines?

  • manta
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Medical Do smart drugs really enhance brain function and creativity?

  • Karlisbad
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Can we get enough water from fruits alone?

  • Line
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Calculating Body Deterioration for Chemistry Experiment

  • Stevedye56
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How does the stomach know to vomit?

  • DaveC426913
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Resurrecting bacteria - origin of life?

  • PIT2
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Odds of Dying from External Causes

  • Ivan Seeking
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Need an uncommon genetic disease for a class project

  • end3r7
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Influences beside genetics and environment

  • Loren Booda
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Medical Study SHows White Matter Correlations with IQ

  • selfAdjoint
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Understanding Patterns of Behavior in Extended Families: Nature vs. Nurture

  • arevolutionist
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Medical Marijuana And Psychedelic Effects On The Mind And Brain

  • Silverbackman
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How to gain muscle mass without putting on fat first

  • Physics is Phun
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Why am I this brain and not another body?

  • uknova
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Pseudoephedrine/Diphenhydramine (drug interaction?)

  • FrogPad
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Is PhIP in grilled chicken a real health concern or PCRM advocacy?

  • Math Is Hard
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Does Lisa need braces?

  • DeadWolfe
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Medical Computational neuroscience papers on navigation, hippocampus and language learning

  • neurocomp2003
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Combatting an Invading Red Ant Colony

  • siddharth
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Can microevolution in dogs be proven without speculation ?

  • heliocentricprose
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What stretches prevent foot and leg cramps during Aikijujutsu practice?

  • Gelsamel Epsilon
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Medical How does this color illusion work?

  • Q_Goest
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Why baby sea turtles have the hardest time reaching the ocean

  • tribdog
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How do vaccine work in the human body?

  • kant
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What are the ratios of harmful, neutral and beneficial mutations?

  • heliocentricprose
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Histocompatability complex protein modification

  • Mk
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My house has Lead Solder on One of the Pipes

  • dimensionless
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Medical Chess, the Drosophilia of Cognitive Science

  • selfAdjoint
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Can parrots really learn to talk and sing like humans?

  • marlon
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Mechanism allowing a blade to cut through tissue?

  • Ouabache
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Why do we shout when experiencing sudden sharp pain?

  • ragav.payne
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What the hell were you doing silly doctor?

  • Lisa!
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Evolution vs Bible: Charles Darwin's Theory

  • Kinn Sein
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Nasty little beggars not only eat our home

  • wolram
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What Happened to Me on the Worst Day Ever?

  • Evo
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DNA and RNA symmetries per the origin(s) of life

  • Loren Booda
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How to treat a pimple inside the nose

  • Math Is Hard
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Highest floating microorganisms

  • Loren Booda
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Medical Can we truly have five dimensional thinking?

  • Ivan Seeking
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Genetic factors shared between alcoholism and obesity

  • selfAdjoint
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Are Hawks Becoming the New Urban Predators in Rio?

  • Rach3
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Medical Communication with woman in persistent vegetative state

  • Ivan Seeking
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Are Ball Pits Dangerous for Kids?

  • Pythagorean
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Tossing and turning trying to sleep

  • DaveC426913
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Grocery store owners spray fresh fruits and vegetables with water?

  • Constance03
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Keeping cats away from bird feeders

  • larkspur
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How Did Elephants' Trunks and Tusks Evolve Over Time?

  • lorka150
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Is E. coli the New Threat to Salad Lovers?

  • Rach3
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News What the heck is going on in Cambodia?

  • Yonoz
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Why plant become dominately sporophyte rather than gametophyte

  • himura137
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Do you have Asperger's Syndrome Test

  • Evo
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What Impact Will Cloning Have on Human Evolution?

  • franky_mojojo
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Average Atomic mass of the human body?

  • Chaos' lil bro Order
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